The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-10
ceoEN CRY, : April 10. 1887
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The local NepS says work viii not be
resumed on the new Union depot until
the City Council orders the closing OF
Fourth Street. The Neps seems to be
playing the part of obstructionist in
Ogden. We do not believe that it
thinks there is anything more than
WINDY vapor in its assertions. and We
believe it makes those assertions for an
Interior object. So far as we are able
to learn, the City Council Is willing TO
do any reasonable thing for the puplic
benefit. Ii necessary, they will order
Fourth Street closed, and we do not
think there is city officer or private
citizen in Ogden who would rather see
the depot stop than have that street
closed. That the building of the depot
and that public prosperity means
individual prosperity none can deny
In some isolated cases individuals
grow wealthy while the community
is suffering from depression; but those
men who can prosper IN dull times can
succ ed better when times are good ,and
for that reason alone any necessary
measure that. may be proposed for the
benefit of the general public will not
meet with determined opposition from
an individual. As to the ordering of the
closing of Fourth Street before work on
The depot is resumed, there has never
been an intimation of the railway cOui-
panie5 to the effect that they will not
resume work until that is done. On
the contrary, they have distinctly init
mated that they would commence work
as soon as they could arrange matters
to do so, and the action of the council
in the past, and the present feelings of
its members, cause no alarm that every
concession needed will not be granted
There need be no alarm in the pnblic
mind about the Union depot not being
built in Ogden. IL isa well-knoWn fact
the natural advantages OF Ogden
cannot be removed, and so long as
they remain it is only question
of little time when her business must
COME out and assume the proportions
which nature designed. Surprising the
lnooted railway to the west from Salt
Lake City be built around the south
end of the lake TO California. How
can that affect Ogden? We already
have railway connections north, south,
east and west. and the pivotal position
which we occupy must always remain.
The Southern Pacific Company cannot
afford to abandon their present line.
and if the proposed line be built it, Will
only necessltate an eastern connection
for the Central Pacific road. Then the
interests of the Union Pacific are SO ex-
tensiVe in the north thar Ogden cannot
be ignored as junction, especially
when the probable paralelling OF their
line by the D. & r. u. Western is con-
sidered. Take it from any standpoint
thathas yet been proposed and we can
see no cause for fear. We have the posi-
ton on the board, and none OF the
great players can accomplish their ends
without moving directly on to this spot
Prospective competition made the
Union Pacific commence the erection OF
the Uuion depot here, and they cannot
ignore the Junction City in their future
plans The Union Pacific Company
can see sufficiently far ahead to know
what they require. and had they not
seen the benefit OF union depot at this
point the present foundation would not
have been put IN.
The public need only do their portion
of the work and Ogden viii have
boom built on such solid foundation
that her progress must be both rapid
and sure. That portion our citizens
are prepared to do. and VIII do. ogden
must boom, and Ogden citizens must
do their part.